HAYTER, Israel Thomas

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Family moved to Clinton Co., Missouri between 1840-1843.
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Israel was a minister at Independence Church, Clinton Co, Missouri and a veteran of the War of 1812.
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Andrew Baker GREGORY b: 1804 in Washington County,Virginia
Married: 8 Jun 1846 by Rev. Israel T. Hayter in Buchanon Co. Mo.
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1840 census:
Parke Co., Indiana
Israel (Hiter) Hayter
Males
1 age under 5
1 age 5-10
1 age 10-15
2 age 15-20
1 age 20-30
1 age 40-50
Females:
2 age 10-15
1 age 40-50
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1850 census:
Marioin, Buchanan Co., Missouri
Hayter, Israel D., 50, M, W, Farmer, $1000, b. Tennessee
Hayter, Margaret, 50, F, W, b. Tennessee
Hayter, Thomas, 40, M, W, b. Tennessee
Hayter, William, 35, M, W, b. Tennessee
Hayter, James, 25, M, W, b. Tennessee
Hayter, Mary, 19, F, W, b. Tennessee
Hayter, George W., 10, M, W, b. Tennessee
Hayter, Hayden, 8, M, W, b. Tennessee
Ames, Lewis, 22, M, W, b. Germany
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1860 census:
Lafayette, Clinton Co., Missouri
Hayter, Israel, 76, M, W, Farmer, $2000 R.E./$1000 Personal, b. Virginia
Hayter, Margaret, 76, F, W, b. Virginia
Hayter, Israel, 21, M, W, b. Indiana
Sutton Sarah J., 12, F, W, b. Kentucky
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1870 census:
Washington, DeKalb Co., Missouri (p. 527)
Hayter, Israel T., 77, M, W, Farmer, $500 R.E./ $200 Personal, b. Virginia
Hayter, Margaret, 76, F, W, Keeping House, b. Virginia, cannot read or write
Hayter, George W., 37, M, W, Farmer, b. Indiana
Hayter, Martha J., 37, F, W, b. Missouri
Hayter, Francis A., 7, M, W, b. Missouri
Hayter, Margaret A., 5, F, W, b. Missouri

Israel married GREGORY, Margaret 17 Jan 1814, Washington County, Virginia. Margaret (daughter of GREGORY, Edward) was born 7 May 1793, Virginia; died 23 Jul 1883, Independence, Clinton County, Missouri; was buried , Independence Cemetery In Clinton County, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

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1840 census:
Wayne, Montgomery Co., Indiana
William (Hiter) Hayter
Males:
1 age under 5
1 age 20-30
Females:
1 age 15-20
William and Zillah were living very near Zilla's mother Leticia, and her brothers John and Monroe.
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The 1850 Census for District 37 in Rock Island Co., Illinois finds William as a farmer age 32 with real estate valued at about $500. The census goes on to state he was born in Virginia and his wife "Zilla" age 26 was born in Indiana. The family at the time of the census had 4 children listed as follows;
1. Joseph age 10 born in Indiana,
2. Mary L. age 7 born in Illinois,
3. John age 4 born in Illinois and
4. Susannah age 6 months, (the youngest at the time of the 1850 census) born in Illinois.
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By 1860 the family had made it's way to Deep River Township, Poweshiek Co., Iowa, where they were recorded as follows:
William Hayter, 43, male, farmer, $1600 real estate, $200 personal wealth, b. Virginia
Zelliah - , 38, female, b. Indiana
Joseph - , 20, male, b. Indiana
Mary L. - , 18, female, b. Illinois
John - , 16, male, b. Illinois
Susannah - , 11, female, b. Illinois
Sarah Ann - , 9, female, b. Illinois
Margaret Elizabeth - , 2, female, b. Iowa
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The 1870 census has the family living in Nodaway Township, Page Co., Iowa, as follows:
(Roll 414 Book 1, Page 475b)
Hayter, William, 51, male, white, brick moulder, $300 personal wealth, b. Tennessee
- , Zilla, 48, female, white, keeping house, b. Indiana
- , Sarah, 13, female, white, b. Iowa
- , William, 8, male white, b. Iowa
- , Viola, 5, female, white, b. Nebraska
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In 1880 the Hayter family was once again in Nebraska. This time in Township 2, Range 16, Wheeler Co., Nebraska (Roll 757 Book 1, Page 393a)
Hayter, William, white, male, 62, farmer, b. Tennessee
- , Zilla, white, female, 58, keeping house, b. Indiana
- , Wallace, white, male, 17, at home, b. Iowa
- , Viola, white, female, 14, at home, b. Nebraska
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1885 Nebraska State Census
ED: 50
Loc: Garfield Precinct,Brown,Nebraska
Date: 01 Jun 1885
Enumerator: R. S. James
Locality: Midway Borough
ED: 192
OSPage Number: 9B
Name: Wm Hayter Race: W Age: 58 Birth Place: Virginia
Name: Della Hayter Race: W Age: 63 Birth Place: Indiana
Name: Wm W. Hayter Race: W Age: 23 Birth Place: Iowa
Name: Viola Hayter Race: W Age: 18 Birth Place: Nebraska
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William was said to have been a Circuit Rider (Judge or Preacher?).
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The death record for William's son stated William was "John William Hayter" and his mother was "Lilly Swank".
SOURCE: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/county/union1/hillcrestcemh3.htm
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William married SWANK, Zillah 20 Jun 1839, Montgomery County, Indiana. Zillah (daughter of SWANK, Joseph and VANMETER, Leticia) was born 1 Apr 1821, Indiana; died 3 Jan 1903, Idaho Or Lakeland, Brown County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet]

Susannah — LEWIS, Joseph. [Group Sheet]

William married RAVEN, Harriet Dorcas 18 Mar 1893, Midvale, Brown County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet]

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1930 census:
(Durham, Butte Co., California, ED 4-16, Sh. 11-A)
Briggs, Viola L., Head, F, W, 59, Widowed, married age 20, b. NE, fa. b. TN, mo. b. IN
", Lester, Son, M, W, 27, Single, b. OR, fa. b. IL, mo. b. NE, Farmer
", John F., Son, M, W, 25, Single, b. OR, fa. b. IL, mo. b. NE, Farmer
", Robert E., Son, M, W, 13, Single, b. OR, fa. b. IL, mo. b. NE, (Robert is actually the son of Pearl (Briggs) Zevely).
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Viola was a mother and a housewife.
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Her obituary follows:
Viola Briggs of Durham Dies at Home at Age 90
Mrs. Viola Luella Briggs died at her home in Durham Wednesday evening at the age of 90. She was born in Freemont, Neb. on August 14, 1865, and came to California in 1917.
She and her husband John Levi Briggs, made their home in Red Bluff until 1925 when they moved to Durham where Mr. Briggs engaged in almond ranching. He died in 1930 (actually 1929).
Mrs. Briggs leaves 4 children, Mrs. Bessie I. Sharp, Lester and John Briggs, all of Durham, and Rev. Wilmer A. Briggs of Tillamook, Ore.; 21 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are being completed by the Brusie Funeral Home, and time of services will be announced later.
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Viola was buried at Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte Co., California (section 7, row R-12, lot 713).

Viola married BRIGGS, John Levi 2 Apr 1888, Brown, Co., Nebraska. John (son of BRIGGS, James Thompson and THRUSH, Katherine Elizabeth) was born 8 Nov 1860, Wabash County, Indiana; died 6 Jan 1929, Durham, Butte County, California; was buried 10 Jan 1929, Chico Cemetery, Chico, Butte County, California. [Group Sheet]

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Pearl was institutionalized in Napa State Hospital, with a psychiatric disorder.
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State death records and the 1920 Red Bluff, Tehama Co., census show her last name as Zevely. The census goes on to show Pearl as divorced age 31 with a 3 1/2 year old son named Robert F. Zevely.
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Her S.S.N. 547-80-4911.

Pearl married ZEVELY, Charles H. 7 Jun 1908, Coos County, Oregon. Charles (son of ZEVERLY, Alexander M. and CHAPMAN, Martha C.) was born 13 Dec 1878; died 17 Jan 1962, Helena, California; was buried 23 Jan 1962, San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, Plot 2e 4540. [Group Sheet]

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Died at 10 months and 2 days

Elizabeth married SHARP, Victor Wright 26 Aug 1914, Lane County, Oregon. Victor was born 25 Feb 1887, California; died 30 May 1969, Butte, California, Unites States. [Group Sheet]

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Served in WWII as a Chaplain for the USAF for 3 years.
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EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF WILMER A. BRIGGS
(Source: Briggs Heritage, by Clara Jean (Briggs) Whan, copyright 1985)
(On-line posting by Anna Marie Dahlquist)

I was born on an Indian reservation at Spaulding, Idaho, on March 12, 1899. My father, John Levi Briggs, was the justice of peace for the Indians, and he also had a store there. The Indiana called me Augonilda, which is a name of a Philippino rebel. I was the first white baby they had ever seen. Today a state park is located there, with the history of the axes written about it.

When I was about two years old, the family moved by flat boat down the Snake River to the Columbia, and thence to Portland, going around the Celilo Falls and Cascade Locks. Father did carpentry work in Portland for a while, and we then moved on down the Coquille River about three miles below Riverton where he had a dairy farm. To get there, we took the steamer Breakwater to Bandon, and then the Dispatch, a sternwheeler, up the river to where the farm was located.

Nine years we lived there. The next move was to Jonah Islet out of South Slough, where Dad rented a dairy ranch. This was not very profitable, so we stayed only two years, moving by scow boat back to Marshfield, where we lived a couple of years.

Then Dad rented a place on the middle fork of the north fork of the Coquille. We stayed here long enough for me to attend a couple years of school at McKinley. Then Dad rented a small place above Gravel Ford, where I attended school and graduated from the eighth grade.

Getting restless again, Dad loaded up the covered wagon and started for Oakridge. This was rough going, and it took us quite a while to travel over the rough road. The railroad was not finished any further than Oakridge, and that was the only road that went over the mountain. My brother-in-law and I had an animal farm while we lived at Oakridge. We had 60 skunks, 3 wildcats and some raccoons. I caught the wildcats in box traps and carried them on my back to the farm. In the summertime, I fought forest fires for the Forest Service. We often slept out on the fire line under a big log, with no bedding, for weeks at a time. Once a bear raided our camp and destroyed the food.

We lived at Oakridge for three years, and then Dad decided to have a look at. eastern Oregon. So we took a covered wagon and set out up the old road to the Rigdon ranger station, on over to Crescent, down by LaPine to Silver Lake, and then to Summer Lake, where we lived for several years. My brother-in-law and I brought 14 new wagons from Bend to Paisely, camping along the way under the wagons for shelter. I handled lots of wild horses and had two of my own. Working on stationary threshing machines which went from place to place, my wages were $35 per month.
It was at Summer Lake that I hunted rabbits for bounty and received 5 cents for the ears. Once when my brothers and I were returning from a hunting expedition, the snow had frozen hard across a ravine, allowing us to slide down it on a board. I did not know my brothers were lifting the end of the board when they wanted to stop. I started down, but lost the board and went down on my head, feet, etc., and headed for a big drop below. I thought I was doomed. My brothers knew I would stop before going over the edge, and they had a good laugh at my ignorance.

We also lived at Dufur on the slopes of Mt. Hood. One November, the first snowfall left about six inches on the ground. Frank, a friend of mine, suggested we go bear hunting. It. was cold, but we took the old Ford and started out. Snow came up to the front axles, and icicles formed on the fenders, but we covered the old car with quilts and drove ten miles up in the hills looking for tracks. Soon finding a trail, we followed it to a big dead tree. There the tracks ended. Digging around in the snow, we found a hole underneath the stump, and poking a stick in the hole, we found our beer. We kept digging until the bear stuck his head out. I shot at him, but just hit him in the nose. He pulled back into the hole. Frank was up the hill about 100 ft., with his gun setting behind the tree stump. My gun was setting close, and when we finally agitated the beer into coming out, I grabbed the gun and tried to shoot, but it was frozen. Dropping the gun, I ran down the hill and climbed a small tree. The bear walked around the stump, knocked my friend's gun down in the snow, and scratched mine around. After circling the tree a couple of times, the bear crawled back in his hole. I stayed in the tree until Frank came down and got his gun. We started a fire and thawed mine out, then we started again to try to get the bear out. Finally getting hold of both hind legs, we tried to pull him out, but that didn't work. After a half-hour or so of struggling, we shot him through the flank. That brought the old bear out of his hole; we finished the job; and got back home about 5 o'clock with our bear.

Summer Lake didn't suit Dad, so we took the covered wagon and traveled through Lake View to Pine Creek, and on to Redding, California, from there to Red Bluff, then to the Los Molinos Colony, where we purchased a small 30 acre place near Dairyville. It was from here I attended the College of the Pacific in San Jose, California and met my wife and lifelong partner, Irene Todd.

This was written by Wilmer A. Briggs, at the age of 80, in 1979.

Wilmer — TODD, Irene Christine. Irene was born 7 Sep 1896; died Aug 1984, Springfield, Lane County, Oregon. [Group Sheet]

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Lester was engaged in the Almond ranching business in Durham, California, and is buried in Chico Cemetery (section 32, plot 3313).

Lester — CLENDENIN, Edna E.. [Group Sheet]

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John was born in Oregon and moved to as a young boy with the rest of his family to Red Bluff, Tehama Co., California.
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His father John Levi began an almond ranching business in Durham, Butte Co., California in about 1925 which was followed by John and his brother Lester for many years.
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He married Alta Cantwell and had a daughter LaDonna Briggs, and a son John Levi Briggs. After some years the marriage didn't work and they divorced.
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John then married Alta May Kelly and the couple had two children Jimmy Franklin Briggs and Leona Marie Briggs.
John continued on the farm and struggled through several other marriages.
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He eventually sold the farm and moved to the Chico area where he lived the remainder of his years. His funeral brought together family from many places and reunited cousins and other family members who hadn't seen each other for years.
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John's obituary appeard in the Chico Enterprise Record Newspaper on January 23, 1998.

John married Dorothy Bef 1941, Possibly Butte County, California. [Group Sheet]

John married KELLY, Alta Marie Abt 1941, Durham, Butte County, California. Alta (daughter of KELLY, Merl Gates and STEVENS, Alice Marguerite) was born 24 Sep 1922, Chico, Butte County, California; died 4 Apr 1991, Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. [Group Sheet]

John married SHOUPE, Minnie Belle Abt 1950, Possibly Butte County, California. Minnie was born 12 Dec 1907, Oklahoma; died 8 Aug 1976, Chico, Butte County, California. [Group Sheet]

John married FOSTER, Julia Frances Aft 1976, Possibly Butte County, California. Julia was born 9 Oct 1911, Kansas; died 3 Feb 1988, Chico, Butte County, California. [Group Sheet]

John married CANTWELL, Alta Josephine Abt 1930, Possibly Butte County, California. Alta (daughter of CANTWELL, David Benton and WOOD, Carrie Vyletta) was born 5 Oct 1913, Butte, California, Unites States; died 17 Nov 1999, Tehama County, California. [Group Sheet]